Collective Media For Tristan Und Isolde, Part 1: The Lighting

Projection By Committee For Seattle Opera’s Latest Production Of Tristan Und Isolde

When developing Seattle Opera’s latest production of Tristan und Isolde, director Peter Kazaras remembered a conversation he had with Leonard Bernstein in 1971. They had just seen the Günther Schneider-Siemssen and August Everding production at New York’s Metropolitan Opera. He and Bernstein
discussed that “written into the fabric of this piece is uncertainty, upset-ness, yearning, constitutional ill-at-ease-ness.”
For the new production, Kazaras, along with set and costume designer ...